The Industry plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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97° on Nov. 15, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1897. Next is 94° in 1927.
Industry’s center stands about 300 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 230 ft to 380 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Rocky Hill, about 480 ft, 12 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Fleming Formation (clay, sandstone), from the Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Clay, sandstone. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 18 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pliocene, 2.6 to 5.3 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone, clay. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Industry reaches the Gulf of America by way of Post Oak Point Creek, Sandy Creek, West Mill Creek, Mill Creek and the Brazos: about 190 river miles.
160 miles of the trip are on the Brazos.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Industry; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Industry has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in August; winter nights fall to about 39° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Industry normally reaches 70° and falls to 48°. The record high is 91°, in 1921; the record low 26°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 1.35 in, fell in 1920.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1897 at Brenham, 15 miles north-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
